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- From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Several interesting questions.
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:21:11 GMT
- Organization: Just me.
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- djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson) writes:
- >Is linux binary compatible with any other PC unix?
-
- No. It isn't.
-
- >How does one get email and net news to Linux?
-
- First, get a connection (SLIP/UUCP/"term") to some other site that
- will be your mail/news server, or (if you're lucky) set up TCP/IP on
- your machine to connect to some local Ethernet which is linked to the
- Internet. Then configure your mailer/news agent to use that connection.
- You'll have to read *lots* of documentation at any rate.
-
- >Where is xtank for linux?
-
- I don't know... Chances are, it would compile under Linux without
- too much difficulty right from the original sources. Then again,
- maybe someone uploaded the binary to tsx-11.mit.edu... it would be
- in a subdirectory of /pub/linux/binaries. Or maybe it comes with SLS?
-
- >Can Linux work in a Novell environment?
-
- If you mean "use Novell's network protocol", the answer is no. Linux
- uses the TCP/IP protocol, the standard for inter-network connection.
-
- >Will Linux ever or does it support the ANSI character set?
-
- 1.) The ANSI you refer to is not a "character set". It's a definition
- of control sequences for (usually text-based) user interface.
- And yes, Linux's terminal emulation on the console *does* support
- ANSI sequences, even in color.
-
- 2.) Linux uses the "Latin-1" character set, which differs from what
- you normally get on a PC in that some of the higher characters
- which would have been line-graphics are used for international
- characters. There's a way to toggle back to IBM's version of
- "American ASCII" (not the same as "ANSI"), but I don't know
- what that method is.
-
- >Is the ps problem from 99-2 corrected in 99-3?
-
- Linux 0.99.2 and 0.99.3 are different versions of the *KERNEL*. The
- "ps" program reads its data from kernel memory, and should therefore be
- re-compiled when used with a new kernel version. Sometimes the kernel
- doesn't change enough to make this necessary, sometimes it does. The
- problem is *not* with the kernel, it's the fact that if the kernel
- changes too much, "ps" won't know how to find what it needs to find.
-
- There is a NEW "ps", based on the "proc" filesystem (which mirrors
- kernel information as if it were directories and files). Since the
- format of the proc filesystem doesn't change, this new proc-ps only
- needs to be compiled once.
-
- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
- Occupation: Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and Linux fan
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